I am using rdesktop on a Fedora laptop to connect to Windows computers at work. To make it easier, I've made an alias in my .bashrc:
alias companyremote='rdesktop -u USER -p - -g 1920x1040 -K'
So I ...

I installed FreeBSD 10.1 and chose to encrypt the ZFS root volume and Swap during install.
I'm now realizing that on the remote KVM vserver I'm on the encryption makes rebooting harder and probably ...

I'm in the process of setting up a FreeBSD 10 server on a KVM vserver.
I'm really new to FreeBSD in general (coming from Debian Linux).
I installed the system choosing ZFS with encrypted root volume ...

In 2011 I installed Ubuntu server edition on an old Dell that I had laying around. During the install process I was using the gui installer and opted to set disk encryption on the disk drive.
During ...

I need to password protect my PDF file(s), because I am going to send them through email and I want anyone who would view my PDF file(s) to be prompted for a password.
How can I add a password to a ...

I have a single text file I want to encrypt.
I can easily do so with any common software. But then, I want to be able to click on it, provide a password, and be able to read, edit, and close it. All ...

Can I decrypt an ecryptfs Private directory from a script?
My basic use case for this type of activity is for doing remote backups. Imagine you have a machine (call it privatebox) with an encrypted ...

I'm currently using thunderbird with gnupg to read encrypted emails.
If I understand the swapping behavior correctly, the memory pages containing the decrypted emails might be swapped out and leave ...

I have an encfs container in my home directory. I had been using Cryptkeeper to open the container, but since updating to Linux Mint 17 from 16 it's not working any more. Gnome Encfs manager doesn't ...

This actually happened on Mac OS X, but I believe I can get the answer here rather than on http://apple.stackexchange.com
I have a directory encrypted with encfs. I accidentally deleted .encfs6.xml ...

I am trying to address an issue where ESP packets are getting fragmented as after adding the ESP header the MTU size is exceeded. The solution—which is what everybody does—is to do the fragmentation ...

I know that I can create a GPG keypair from the CentOS 7 terminal by typing gpg --gen-key and following the resulting steps, but how can I make sure that the resulting public key is self-signed? And ...

Zip encryption has had often a bad reputation of being weak, but some would argue that a zip file encrypted using certain algorithms (such as by using AES), together with strong password, is really ...

I have an encrypted share folder on my synology NAS DS413 (which uses ecryptfs). I can manually mount the encrypted folder and read the decrypted files without issue, using synologies GUI. For some ...

So far I have a Debian NAS with a samba share accessible from a Windows client by user credentials. Within that share I have a folder of images encrypted by ecryptfs. A friend of mine have agreed to ...

I have debian installed on my computer which is installed in a full encrypted disk. Having tried lubuntu in virtual box form and liking it, I want to try lubuntu out on the actual computer instead of ...

I have such boot sequence: system boots from external disk, right after start it asks about password for LVM encrypted partition (which holds /root and /home), I enter it, the partitions are mounted, ...

How do I format LUKS encrypted disk if I don't know the passphrase?
I recently switched my HDD for a new SSD disk in my laptop and now when I connect the old HDD externally I can't mount disk event ...

I use Lubuntu 14.04.
I've gotten concerned about encrypting my internet traffic after reading about the problems with public WiFi and intend to start using VPN.
However, all my internet usage is on ...

I want to use Volume Encryption on my Debian machine. Linux does have such a tool for that. But I want to use my own encryption tool to encrypt a partition. Now, is it somehow possible to specify it ...

I would like to download some files from my server into my laptop, and the thing is that I want this communication to be as stealth and secure as it can be. So, far I came up using VPN, in that way I ...

How can I set an encrypted directory. Once accessed with a password, all files saved into it should be encrypted on the fly. It has to be possible to back-up as it were just a big file. And I don't ...

I have a client that stopped paying support to WideBand and I have no clue how to get their files off that server and onto something newer. I can logon over the network but when trying to bulk copy ...